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endosteum

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9 lettersPronunciation /ɛnˈdɒsti.əm/Part of speech nounSorted deemnostuStarts with EEnds with M0 clues
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Definitions

  1. vascular membrane that lines the inner surface of long bones

Word origin

From end- (“inside, internal, within”) (from Ancient Greek ἔνδον (éndon, “within”)) + Ancient Greek ὀστέον (ostéon, “bone”).

Used in a sentence

  • Hyaline cartilage is insensitive, and radiographic changes imputed to it can have no bearing on pain from it unless it is so worn away that the endosteums of the articulating bones are rubbing on each other.
  • The cortical and trabecular endosteums are the inner linings of bone. The osteonal endosteum lines the osteonal canals […] and is the internal lining of bone. It is continuous with the periosteal and cortical endosteums.
  • The periosteum is constrained and interrupted by tendons, ligaments, and fibrocartilage, whereas the endosteum is awash with hematopoitic bone marrow[…].

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